ECHA requests testing proposals for three additional substances

12:37 PM MDT | October 21, 2013 | Michael Ravenscroft

The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA; Helsinki) has requested proposals for testing of three substances, C20–C24 alpha-olefins, benzotriazole, and lithium iron phosphate. The hazard end point for which vertebrate testing has been proposed for C20–C24 alpha-olefins is reproductive toxicity (prenatal developmental toxicity) and reproductive toxicity (two-generation reproductive toxicity), ECHA says. Testing is proposed with oct-1-ene, according to ECHA. The hazard end point for which vertebrate testing has been proposed for both benzotriazole and lithium...